On Monday, I gave a presentation for my Christian History religion class on Voltaire and Rousseau. Both were deists, meaning in short that they believed that God was like a watchmaker, who made the perfect world clock and then wound it up and let it run. Their philosophical religious ideas played into politics as well and had a great impact on the French Revolution, which in turn destroyed the foundations of church in France at the time and connections between church and state (also a deist view). Anyway… dispensing with the lecture, after my presentation a group of us went to the Pantheon (which you can get in free with a history of art student card) and saw the tombs of both Voltaire and Rousseau.
Monday, March 20, 2006
The Crypt
On Monday, I gave a presentation for my Christian History religion class on Voltaire and Rousseau. Both were deists, meaning in short that they believed that God was like a watchmaker, who made the perfect world clock and then wound it up and let it run. Their philosophical religious ideas played into politics as well and had a great impact on the French Revolution, which in turn destroyed the foundations of church in France at the time and connections between church and state (also a deist view). Anyway… dispensing with the lecture, after my presentation a group of us went to the Pantheon (which you can get in free with a history of art student card) and saw the tombs of both Voltaire and Rousseau.